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Index No. A6606 Large Silver Calendar Verge
A large early 19th Century English verge with seconds and calendar in silver pair cases.  Full plate gilt keywind fusee movement with dust cover.  The bell shaped table of the cock engraved with a serpent, diamond endstone.  Gilt Bosley regulator, plain three arm polished steel flat balance with blue steel spiral hairspring. White enamel dial with subsidiaries for calendar and  seconds, Roman numerals, blue steel subsidiary hands, gold hands. Matching silver pair cases, silver oval pendant and bow.  Lateral steel stop lever, maker's mark "JW" in an oval.
SignedW Riley   Liverpool
Hallmarked London 1815
Diameter 64 mm
Depth15.5 mm
Unusually the calendar is set by hand.  The watch has been made without any automatic mechanism and it would not be possible to fit one unless a thicker dial plate was used.  
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